Pacelle is noted for having ?no hand-on fondness for animals,? and further
confesses that ?To this day I don?t feel bonded to any non-human animal?.??
However, that didn?t stop him from opportunistically grabbing a photo op with a
factory farmed non-human animal whose suffering Pacelle?s putrid narcissistic
careerism perpetuates.

By Dr. Steve Best
8/25/08

In August 2005, when HSUS (hereafter think ?H$U$?) Executive Vice President Mike
Markarian publicly ?applaud[ed]? the FBI for arresting and imprisoning six
amazing activists from Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), my outrage over
this self-serving betrayal of activists and animals alike inspired me to write
?The Iron Cage of Bureaucracy,? a fierce critique of HSUS and its chief
executive, Wayne Pacelle. I condemned HSUS for its divisive attacks on animal
rights militants, its bureaucratic rigidity, its cowardly conformism, and its
disturbingly cozy relationships with the animal exploiters they claim to oppose.
Despite a recent fluff piece in the Los Angeles Times that promotes Pacelle as a
consummate animal champion and visionary leader, I am pained to report that his
?humane meat? and ?cage-free? egg campaigns have promoted more, not less, animal
suffering and killing; that HSUS is a collaborationist with, not antagonistic